Morning Mates, feeling rather woeful this morning after absolutely no sleep last night. Just one of those nights....

I need to wake up and be functioning, I have a writers' group meeting this morning, after which I hope to do a little shopping. If I have any energy left, I will get some more Christmas decorations outside, it is nice and mild today.

Good morning Donna and all that follow. We woke up to bright sunshine this morning but it may become overcast and then rain. That seems to be the pattern most days. We are in a very small town that basically has only 2 main streets which we have walked many times. The beaches, however, are beautiful. There is so much poverty and there is very little infrastructure. Most restaurants and businesses are owned by foreigners; servers and wait staff are locals. The largest store is a grocery store and you could probably fit 4 or 5 of them into one of ours back home. It certainly makes us appreciate what we have. Being born where we were is tantamount to winning the lottery.

Donna....I think many of us would be interested in the car lease outcome....please let us know.

Good morning all. Woke to a very foggy morning but it is burnt off now. I have pretty much got everything packed for us for the weekend. Tomorrow we will go to our niece's for dinner. It should be a good day, as Michael's fiance will be going and meeting the rest of the family. Then tomorrow evening/night we will go to Jennifer's for the rest of the weekend,
but have to come home on Sunday as Bruce has a meeting on Monday that he has to go to.

It was a nice sunny day in our neighborhood. I cleaned out some junk from the garage this morning. Things had accumulated form our home improvement project. In the afternoon, I watched two soccer games and in between I helped Mrs. TM with some chores around the house.